must roll it up, and spread it thin and broad, and each person must (at some distance from each other) make the first letters of her Christian and surname with a large new pin, towards the end of the cake: if more Christian names than one, the first letter of each must be made. The cake must then be set before the fire, each person must sit down in a chair, as far distant from the fire as the room will admit, not speaking a single word all the time. This must be done soon after eleven at night, and between that and twelve, each person must turn the cake once, and in a few minutes after the clock strikes twelve, the husband of her who is first to be married will appear, and lay his hand on that part of the cake which is marked with her name." 204. THE FIGURE OF SEVEN, containing divers matters pleasant and profitable, fitted to the capacities of both the learned and ignorant: wherein is much more treated of than of any subject written before this kind. 8vo. Printed and sold in Aldermary Churchyard, n.d. We A collection of oddities arranged in sevens. may select the following as specimens:-" Nick-names given to seven counties. Essex calves; Hertfordshire hedge-hogs; Kentish long-tails; Cambridgeshire camels; Leicestershire bean-bellies; Norfolk dumplins; Yorkshire tikes. Seven sorts of men that love seven sorts of things. A Dutchman loves brandy; an Irishman, usquebaugh; a Welchman, toasted cheese; an Englishman, Canary; a Scotchman, oatcakes; a Frenchman, mutton; a German, strong beer." 205. CAMBRIDGE JESTS, OR WITS' RECREAtion. 12mo. London. Printed in Bow Church-yard, n d. "Ralph of Gloucester, a noted fool, being one day in the shambles, and meeting the mayor, aldermen, and principal inhabitants there, to whom he was well known. Well, honest Ralph,' said Mr. Mayor,' what news have you to-day?' 'Master Mayor,' replied Ralph, 'great news.' 'What is it?' said the mayor. 'Indeed,' quoth Ralph, 'I never yet saw so many sheeps' heads in the shambles at one time." (p. 14.) "A condemned person riding up Holborn-hill in his way to Tyburn, desired to call at the Horn Tavern to take a glass of wine to cherish his spirits, and keep up his heart. When he had drank two or three bumpers of claret, the vintner asked him if it was good. 'Aye,' says he, ''tis excellent wine, if a person could but stay by it." (p. 16.) "A Cantabrigian being one day deeply engaged in discourse with a gentlewoman who condemned the weakness of her sex. 'No, madam,' replied the scholar, 'not so, for, if I mistake not, it is easy to prove your sex stronger than ours, for Sampson, being the strongest, carried only the gates of the city away: but now-a-days every female stripling carries a tower on her head." (p. 16.) "A merry country fellow told his companions he could have whatever weather be pleased, at which they all laughed, and said it was impossible, for the planets governed the world and the weather too. 'You are fools,' said he, for what weather pleases God, pleases me." (p. 22.) 206. THE COACHMAN'S AND FOOTMAN'S CATECHISM, being an account of all the proceedings and the various places they are entertain'd in from their first commencing servants to their being superannuated. Compiled for the edification of the young fraternity. Also an account of Betty the cook-maid, Mary the kitchen-maid, butler and steward, porter, gardiner, postillion and groom, housekeeper, house-maid, chamber-maid, laundrymaid, nursery-maid, and that sweet pretty creature call'd the lady's-woman, that will really tell a hundred and fifty lies while she is dressing her lady pray, what is that for, but to turn the servants out of their places, and beg a silk gown now and then, with ruffle cuffs to it, and their three-story church-steeple Maccaroni cap. 8vo. London, n.d. 207. THE LIFE AND GLORIOUS HISTORY OF JOHN, DUKE AND EARL OF MARLBOROUGH, containing a relation of the most important battles, sieges, and negotiations managed under his auspicious conduct both in the wars of Flanders and Ireland, &c. With the addition of his grace's last glorious campaign, particularly the great and memorable battle of Ramellies. 8vo. n.d. This Eight leaves, with a portrait on the title. appears to have been printed in 1706, soon after the duke's campaign in the spring of that year. 208. THE SAILOR'S WARNING-PIECE, being a dreadful relation of seven English sailors, who, on the 10th of May last (1706), were in such sad extremity by a violent tempest on the coast of St. Christopher's Island, that they kill'd and eat one of their companions, by lot, to keep the rest alive with the manner how they were at last preserved by a miracle. As also another astonishing relation of the Gloucester merchant-ship from Virginia, that was kept so long at sea by bad weather, till all the ship's crew dyed for hunger, except the master and his boy, who eat the flesh of their dead companions to save their own lives, being at last saved by meer Providence on the coast of Ireland, &c. Licensed and entered according to order. 8vo. Printed by H. Hills in Blackfryars, n.d. This consists of four leaves only. On the title is a cut of a ship in a storm. 209. THE Northern GarlAND, in four parts. 1. How a northern lord made a sale of his fair and beautiful daughter to a worthy knight, the price being her weight of gold, which was borrowed of a Jew on a dreadful agreement. 2. How he fled from the Jew to the German court, where he was kindly entertained till a Dutch lord had like to have deprived him of his lady, life, and honour. 3. How the Dutch lord, because he could not have his will, sent for the Jew to cut him in pieces for that gold, and how he was delivered from that danger by his lady, in man's apparel. 4. How the northern lord, hearing the false report of his daughter's death, went over to see his son executed; and how his daughter, under the name of the Green Knight, pleaded his cause from time to time, and delivered him from death: concluding with a happy discovery, which crowned them with an universal joy. 12mo. n.d. Printed by J. White of Newcastle, who, as I am informed by Mr. Bell, died in 1769. I have not met with an earlier copy, though the ballad itself bears marks of antiquity. It has been reprinted by Buchan and Moore, and possesses considerable interest as being founded on the tales of the Merchant of Venice and Cymbeline. An analysis of it is given in Mr. Hunter's Illustrations of Shakespeare, i, 301. 210. THE ROYAL COURTLY GARLAND, in six parts. 1. How the King of Bohemia, having married a most virtuous queen, and being afterwards visited by a foreign prince, of whom the king became jealous, and hired his cup-bearer to poison him; the prince, being acquainted with it, went to his own country, and was soon after crowned there. 2. How the king put his wife in prison, where she was delivered of a daughter, who was, by the king's order, put into a boat, and left to the mercy of the sea. 3. How the king in a vision being assured of his wife's innocency, released her, who soon after died with grief. 4. How the child was drove into that country where the prince reigned, taken up by a shepherd, and kept as his own. 5. How the king's son fell in love with her, and embarked with her, and the old shepherd for Italy. 6. Being by a storm drove into Bohemia, were confined, and how the king thereof knew she was his own daughter. 12mo. n.d. 211. THE ROYAL COURTLY GARLAND, OR JOY AFTER SORROW. 12mo. Tewkesbury, n.d. This garland was frequently reprinted during the last century, and its age should, if possible, be ascertained, for the title will at once exhibit its similarity to the Winter's Tale. It commences as follows: "A tragical story I have to relate, A king of Bohemia of splendor most great; |
